The Politics of Racial Abjection

• In Event: Oppression and Otherness

Brief Overview

IN THE WRITINGS ON ABJECTION, THE LITERATURE DOES NOT GIVE SATISFACTORY ATTENTION TO ITS PHYSICAL, SEXUAL, AND VIOLENT NATURE OF RACIAL ABJECTION. RACISM LIES BELOW THE LEVEL OF DISCURSIVE AWARENESS AND MAKES THE TOPIC DIFFICULT TO CONCEPTUALIZE.

Author

• Brandon Rudolph Davis, University of Kansas